Barbara Rachwalska

Acting

Barbara Rachwalska

Born 1922-04-13 · Warsaw, Poland

Acting credits

Gromada poster
5.5

The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.

Gromada

1952

The Last Stage poster
7.2

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate.

The Last Stage

1948

Jasne łany poster
7.0

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

Jasne łany

1947

Boczny tor poster
7.0

Old couple dreams about a cruise.

Boczny tor

1988

Two Hours poster
7.3

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.

Two Hours

1957

Ostatni strzał poster
6.5

A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.

Ostatni strzał

1959

No artwork available
NR

Old Faust, a great scholar makes a pact with Mephistopheles - in exchange for his soul, the devil offers him youth and knowledge of the meaning of existence. Faust becomes a beautiful young man. He meets a young, virtuous girl Margaret - he asks Mephistopheles for help in seducing her.

Faust

1976

Beata poster
6.5

Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her, runs away from home.

Beata

1965

Cham poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Cham

1980

Carmilla poster
6.5

In 19th-century Styria, isolated Laura's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Laura's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, and the supernatural are explored, culminating in Laura's discovery of Carmilla's vampiric nature and a confrontation with her ancient lineage.

Carmilla

1980

Interrupted Flight poster
9.0

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

Interrupted Flight

1964

No artwork available
NR

Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.

Piąta rano

1970

Koniec nocy poster
4.8

A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.

Koniec nocy

1957

Controlled Conversations poster
6.7

Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.

Controlled Conversations

1991

The Peasants poster
5.8

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.

The Peasants

1973

And the Violins Stopped Playing poster
7.5

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

And the Violins Stopped Playing

1988

Uczennica poster
NR

Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.

Uczennica

1982

Nights and Days poster
6.9

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.

Nights and Days

1975

Fucha poster
7.0

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.

Fucha

1985

It Started Yesterday poster
8.0

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.

It Started Yesterday

1961

Ewa Wants to Sleep poster
6.8

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Ewa Wants to Sleep

1958

Kapelusz pana Anatola poster
7.0

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

Kapelusz pana Anatola

1957

No artwork available
NR

The sixth and final episode compilation of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 16 and 17.

More Than Life At Stake Part Six

1969

Follies of Miss Eva poster
7.0

From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.

Follies of Miss Eva

1985